Nintendo Shows New Switch Console Trailer
The Japanese company Nintendo, in contrast to another giant of the console industry - Sony, is a very closed organization and carefully guarding its own secrets and rights.
This afternoon, without any high-profile announcements and advertising campaigns on YouTube, the official video of the next Nintendo product, the hybrid Switch console, appeared. Unfortunately, the Japanese manufacturer did not provide any technical characteristics to the public, so all conclusions can be made only on the basis of what they saw.
The video itself was shot quite qualitatively, but in the course of viewing the user, a little more sophisticated than the average housewife, raises more questions than answers.
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In a fairly vigorous trailer, Nintendo marketers offer us an old-new gaming experience that has been safely buried by a "neighbor" - by Sony. As planned by the company, the Nintendo Switch will be a hybrid console that can be used both as a device connected to a TV using a docking station, and in a stand-alone portable console.
At first glance, the Switch is a fat PSP clone with removable “ears” -controllers. The console itself is a “tablet” with a diagonal of 7-9 inches.
Joy-Con removable controllers do not bond together and are used separately in each hand.
For those who want to play with a friend, the developers have provided multiplayer on one screen, and control for multiplayer games is limited to one Joy-Con controller, as they are mirrored.
Of course, this is not the most convenient option to use. The size of the controllers is even smaller than those in the classic Nintendo ES, and hands, one way or another, will be tired.
For more sophisticated gamers, Nintendo will deliver “pro” gamepads, which, in fact, are another variation on the xBox gamepad. Even the developers promise a "seamless" experience of transition from stationary to portable: just took the console off the docking station and continue the game.
In the trailer, games like Splatoon (2015, Wi U platform), NBA 2K, and Skyrim flashed, so the Switch will be no weaker than Wi U. The question is how much you have to sacrifice for mobility, since The complete computing unit is located exactly in the “tablet” itself, and the docking station performs only the function of a repeater and charging.
The only thing that is known about the Switch in terms of the filling is the use of the Tegra universal mobile processor as the CPU and graphics accelerator, as reported, however, in the Nvidia blog , and not from Nintendo itself. According to Nvidia, an optimization was carried out specifically for the Switch and a custom API was written.
The issues of wear resistance of the Switch and controllers, the battery life and the possibility without a docking station, as it would be naive to assume that the level of power consumption of the console from the network and from the battery will be the same.
Nintendo has announced a list of partner companies and studios that will support the Switch. Among them, Activision, Warner Bros, CAPCOM, EA, Bethesda and many others. What cooperation will be expressed is not yet clear.
According to Bloomberg , amid the release of the trailer, Nintendo’s capitalization jumped $ 1 billion. In recent years, only the “epidemic” of Pokemon GO, which has swept the planet, has caused a big reaction.
Release news is scheduled for March 2017.
This afternoon, without any high-profile announcements and advertising campaigns on YouTube, the official video of the next Nintendo product, the hybrid Switch console, appeared. Unfortunately, the Japanese manufacturer did not provide any technical characteristics to the public, so all conclusions can be made only on the basis of what they saw.
The video itself was shot quite qualitatively, but in the course of viewing the user, a little more sophisticated than the average housewife, raises more questions than answers.
')
In a fairly vigorous trailer, Nintendo marketers offer us an old-new gaming experience that has been safely buried by a "neighbor" - by Sony. As planned by the company, the Nintendo Switch will be a hybrid console that can be used both as a device connected to a TV using a docking station, and in a stand-alone portable console.
At first glance, the Switch is a fat PSP clone with removable “ears” -controllers. The console itself is a “tablet” with a diagonal of 7-9 inches.
Joy-Con removable controllers do not bond together and are used separately in each hand.
For those who want to play with a friend, the developers have provided multiplayer on one screen, and control for multiplayer games is limited to one Joy-Con controller, as they are mirrored.
Of course, this is not the most convenient option to use. The size of the controllers is even smaller than those in the classic Nintendo ES, and hands, one way or another, will be tired.
For more sophisticated gamers, Nintendo will deliver “pro” gamepads, which, in fact, are another variation on the xBox gamepad. Even the developers promise a "seamless" experience of transition from stationary to portable: just took the console off the docking station and continue the game.
In the trailer, games like Splatoon (2015, Wi U platform), NBA 2K, and Skyrim flashed, so the Switch will be no weaker than Wi U. The question is how much you have to sacrifice for mobility, since The complete computing unit is located exactly in the “tablet” itself, and the docking station performs only the function of a repeater and charging.
The only thing that is known about the Switch in terms of the filling is the use of the Tegra universal mobile processor as the CPU and graphics accelerator, as reported, however, in the Nvidia blog , and not from Nintendo itself. According to Nvidia, an optimization was carried out specifically for the Switch and a custom API was written.
The issues of wear resistance of the Switch and controllers, the battery life and the possibility without a docking station, as it would be naive to assume that the level of power consumption of the console from the network and from the battery will be the same.
Nintendo has announced a list of partner companies and studios that will support the Switch. Among them, Activision, Warner Bros, CAPCOM, EA, Bethesda and many others. What cooperation will be expressed is not yet clear.
According to Bloomberg , amid the release of the trailer, Nintendo’s capitalization jumped $ 1 billion. In recent years, only the “epidemic” of Pokemon GO, which has swept the planet, has caused a big reaction.
Release news is scheduled for March 2017.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/372785/
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